Eight people share their lives, loves, and secrets while vacationing at a shore cottage, including photographers Mathew and Lindsey, widowed Alison and her college-age grandson, and four college friends.

What should have been the best day in Diana Wagnor's twenty-nine years easily turns into the worst when her job is downsized, she discovers her fiance in bed with her best friend, and she watches her cherished grandmother's house burn to the ground. Clearly it's time to start over and get out of Topeka, Kansas, where she's spent her whole life. But what should she do? And how does she ever trust herself in another relationship when her one indisputable...